chilli Posted February 20, 2005 Report Share Posted February 20, 2005 interesting music are thrilled about putting this type event on for the very 1st time in Aberdeen; a package of artists operating in the avant experimental & psychedelic FREE FOLK field of music. If you follow contemporary music you will be aware of this, as The Wire Magazine & Brian Morton have been highlighting this very important music genre for some time. Contemporary music festivals like Instal, KYTN & Le Weekend have been increasing their exposure to artists operating in this loose improvised music genre. Come & see/hear this 1st hand. Tuesday 15th March The TunnelsDoors 8pm Entry 5Josephine Foster (usa), Taurpis Tula (scotland/usa)James Blackshaw (eng)Peter Wright (nz)Josephine FosterAs a solo artist and as one half of the avant-folk duo Born Heller (who are due to play @ Slint's All Tomorrow's Parties festival), Chicago's Josephine Foster is an absolute gem! The balmy influence of her beautiful, fragmented Appalachian folk songs overflow with a child-like sincerity, heartbroken sorrow and a warm-heartedness sure to charm even the most surly and jaded of us all. Foster's simple songwriting and soaring, almost operatic vocals have fairly been compared to English folk-music legend Shirley Collins, but Vashti Bunyan, Elizabeth Cotten and The Kossoy Sisters also seem good points of reference here, playing ukulele, banjo, guitar and harp amongst other instruments. After three gorgeous self-released solo recordings and albums with Born Heller and "rock'n'roll" group The Supposed under her belt, Foster looks set to release her first official solo-album on Locust Music in April 2005.www.100songsising.comTaurpis Tulataurpis tula from glasgow, scotland is the duo of heather leigh (charalambides and scorces) on petal steel/vocals and david leigh on guitar, navigating rivers of steel string with their fists and throats. Their all-improvised music works loops of spectral sound into beautifully fucked tonal hymns.www.taurpistula.comlast release reviewexamining drones and loops from the epic cragginess of The Dream Academy and Terry Riley to its currency amongst laptop popsters and free-guitar types has long been a passion. To create improvised, trance-driven music with subtlety, emotionalism, hymn-like melody and physicality is rare. Glasgow, Scotland's Taurpis Tula is that precious find. Guitarist/shortwave radio operator David Keenan and vocalist/pedal steel guitarist Heather Leigh Murray make a highly charged, soul-soothing music, borrowed and blue. Atop wave-generated ambience an opera of muffled tones influenced by Holger Czukay's experiments in church music and oblique sampling and haunted vocal reveries, they scratch, scrape and caress their guitars. This technique, adapted from the pounded-meat playing of Fred Frith, has become sensuous in their capable hands, resulting in the crying sounds of steel strings that any country cowpoke would envy. - A.D. Amorosi, Philadelphia City Paper.net.James Blackshaw23-year old London-based guitarist James Blackshaw's playing sounds as inspiring as the Adirondacks (or Appalachians or the Sierra Nevadas). Put quite simply, there's a new finger picker in town, and he smokes in a post Robbie Basho way that will have you Jack Rose fans tripping over your tongues reaching for new ostentatious descriptions to wow the hip masses with. Blackshaw's twelve-string fairly rattles along, resonating to produceunbridled raga-like flurries, bursting with energy, yet harnessed with enough melodic definition to their fluid motions. There can be no doubt that this guy really can play. His debut album 'Celeste' was released on Campbell Kneale's (AKA Birchville Cat Motel) Celebrate Psi Phenomenon label in late 2004 and was quickly followed by the drone/raga epic 'Lost Prayers and Motionless Dances' on Digitalis Industries. A split-album with US-based free-folk collective Davenport is due out on Static Records in February 2005.www.shoryobuni.f2g.net/sunshrinePeter WrightPeter Wright has been a highly prolific and important figure in the New Zealand underground music scene for years and a true innovator in the realms of minimal drone-based experimentation. Currently residing in London, 2004 saw the release of Wright's long-running collaboration with Finland's Uton on Digitalis Industries and solo-album 'Desolation Beauty Violence' on Foxglove, as well as a re-issue of 'Distant Bombs' on Last Visible Dog, which has been regarded by many as an essential album in it's genre. Using a mixture of organic instrumentation such as 12-string electic guitar in open tunings, violin and suspended bottles with field recordings and some minor computer manipulation, Wright creates incredibly sad, beautiful and hypnotic soundscapes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted February 20, 2005 Report Share Posted February 20, 2005 I feel you have set up this bill especially for me....thank you, Chilli!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted February 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 I feel you have set up this bill especially for me....thank you' date=' Chilli!!!!!!!! [/quote']& myself, according to dj eclectic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 He's dottled, so we won't worry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted March 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2005 He's dottled' date=' so we won't worry! [/quote']thats worth highlighting, as is the fact this will be a very special night......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted March 10, 2005 Report Share Posted March 10, 2005 I now have 2 James Blackshaw albums.....massively enjoyable. Fans of Fahey/Basho/Rose will love this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted March 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2005 I now have 2 James Blackshaw albums.....massively enjoyable. Fans of Fahey/Basho/Rose will love this.I think they will pour in, in their dribbles for this orgasmic event!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted March 14, 2005 Report Share Posted March 14, 2005 I'm excited about tomorrow night......not orgasmic yet, but you never know!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted March 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2005 I'm excited about tomorrow night......not orgasmic yet' date=' but you never know!!! [/quote']the yellow man's working on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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